Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
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Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?"
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is."
Patti Smith
Musician
"No one expected me. Everything awaited me."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"To those whom much is given, much is expected."
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"I never expected to be anybody important."
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"I have always... expected a lot from myself."
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"A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them."
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"Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected."
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"How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse."
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"things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up"
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"Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected."
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"It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things."
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"Much is expected from those to whom much is given."
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"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."
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"Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it."
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"I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do."
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"Health is my expected heaven."
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"Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?"
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"A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it."
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"She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected."
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"Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected."
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"To those who are given much, much is expected."
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"The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you."
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"Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally."
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